Recent reviews by Aryptonix

Its pretty good. Worth your time probably.

The hair engine is worth it alone! Its gonna suck to go back to any other game that doesnt use that hair engine... it looks sooooo good. Probably the best part of the game... or from their game engine for sure.

But the game looks good and runs well, which is already better than so many new games that comes out.
Almost no stuttering and fps drop for me.

Combat is alright. Sometime there are just so much stuff on your screen that you cant see what to dodge or what is happening.

Mouse & Keyboard need some help from the devs. The camera can still move weirdly with a mouse, which is a big no no when you play with M&K: dont ever ever adjust/move the camera for me. I had to switch to controller because of that, because it was that bad. Couldnt find a setting to fix it, which make me think i need the dev to fix something.

With the DLC, its such a great game.
Story is good enough to keep you playing (and wanted to check all ending).
The build options and way to specs your character are great compared to launch.
And the cyberware system is pretty interesting and feel well balanced.
One weird thing for me is playing with a gun doesnt feel as fun as anything else... blade, bats, punch, throwable, hacking, all greats! But shooting... meh. Maybe that needs to be my next character.

70% Steam Review is pretty accurate for the DLC.

Its just more Elden Ring. Nothing new, nothing better, just more of the same (which for most, will be more than enough). If you enjoyed the base game and finished it, then definitely get this. And if you Didnt get Elden Ring before this, well it wont make the game better.
For the difficulty, its whatever. You can make it easier if you want, granted not as easily as the base game but you definitely still can.

But, with this they havent worked on:
Meh Performance (one of the last zone, my fps drop for no reason on a i7 13th with 4080 without ray tracing) and the final campaign boss got a spell that drop my fps to 30, and got one crash in the last zone. So maybe they rushed the end, havent tested it enough;
FPS still cap at 60... gotta mod it;
No real coop... gotta mod it;
No ultrawide screen support... gotta mod it;
No controller remap;
Camera need help, some boss, the camera will rage you more than the boss itself;
One map, for a world that can have 3 layers of level overlapping... navigation could have been improved by having more than a single map (world is great and big, but you need a better map system for that kind of world).

I also had to look online to make sure that I did kill the final boss of the campaign, because there was no hint that it was after it was dead. No credit, nothing. It was just like I killed another random named boss.
Thats why I leave it negative, because they have not tried to make it better, just made more of the same.

And the fans were crying when the review hit 60% positive... Enough for the devs to release hints on getting stronger.

Amazing game!

Great story;
Amazing characters;
Basic but fun gameplay/combat.

This was my first Yakuza game. Felt like watching the last Fast and Furious without any of the previous movies (what the hell is going kinda feeling). But the game tries its best to give you as much background info on each characters. Every characters were a blast to know. I had the voice in japanese all the time, and I dont understand anything, but was still really nice. The voice actors did an amazing job. Graphics are good, controls are good. Not much bad stuff (maybe the new-game+ behind paywall).

Im not a big mini-games fan, barely did any, but that was still 64 hours of good gameplay for the campaign.

Edit December: Yup, still the worst thing I played and paid for this year... what a trash game lol.

Nop nop nop, im writing this while theres the unskipable credit.
The fun combat and weird cool stuff happening are not enough for the terrible and short story.
The UI is meh meh, could be better but its decent. For mouse/keyboard user: there is mouse acceleration...
And of course the performance. At least im lucky where i can run at 90fps in the world and around 50-60 in towns. But sometime i was in a small cavern, with nothing going on and couldnt go over 60fps... (13700k with 4080 btw).

But the story... its way too short. I played 29 hours it says... guess you can beat it in 15hours then (maybe less). The final boss is super lame. Its boring for melee and seems easier than a random dragon in the open world... I though there was no way I would be ready for it... (I wasnt expecting the quest to really be the final one) Well, I was... hes too easy. Maybe the new game+ got a complete different campaign?...?

But then the credit starts... and... I went back into the last boss a second time? Same fight, I had the loot from my first kill... sooooo, what was that? Their end-game? I kill it AGAIN, and the same credit roll again... lol. Then I got back to the main screen... I dont understand why I just killed the last boss twice in a row...

The combat is what the game is all about... because nothing else is worth... And not worth the price... get it at 50%. And dont be afraid to use the teleports... game is short... I though it was going to be a long game, so I was saving them, as they are rare and expensive.

Edit: Apparently, killing the big boss is the bad ending. Without looking on the internet, no way for me to know (credits rolled, I got the Capcom logo, got back to main screen with new game+ unlocked... how could I know that its the bad/wrong ending...)

UI needs Massive rework, its extremely bad right now.
The camera need a bit of polish, like a key to reset the camera forward... somehow they forgot that.
Need way better tutorial on some stuff.
And they talked about a feature to discover new recipes... its SO bad and useless that even the dev said its not worth it in the forums... (maybe remove it from the game before launch then).

The concept of the game sounds good, fly a plane, collect stuff, make brew and sell them... but the UI and brew part isnt that good.

"Lets make 2 batch of beers. There, 200x of them, lets sell them now! How many did we sell total today? Oh, 2... Might as well just destroy them..."

Only two things need improving for me, and everything else is really fun:
1. Add cloud saves, small detail
2. On my work PC (8700k + 16gig + 1060), the performance are weird - Its totally playable but sometime it drop to 45fps for no reason, then go back up to smooth 60, then back down to 45 - That is everything on low.

But everything else is working great and pretty fun for launch version of the early access.
The demo will tell you if you like it or not (played 5h on the demo).

Edit: Still good. They fixed my performance problem on my second PC. Just missing Steam Cloud Saves, which they said are working on it.

Update: You know what, I have faith. A couple of weeks and major problems should be fixed.

Right now, reviews are at around 50%, which is pretty accurate imo.
This version feels like an early access with great ideas, but not polished yet.
When (Im sure they can fix everything, with months) most of the bad stuff get fixed, it will be a 9/10 probably, maybe 10/10.

Performance are baddd, its not great! My gaming rig is an i7 13700k, 32gig, Nvidia 4080, on an M.2, running at 3440x1440 @90hz.
I drop the graphics to low and keep dropping some more so I can have something close... but not there yet, to 60fps. And with graphics at low, its not the best looking game. Its demanding more than Cities 1 for meh graphics. I can boost the setting and have 30fps and under... but my cities are just at 6k pop and its not good... cant wait to see 100k pop at 10fps.
And to add more stats, my Working PC is an older 8700k, 16gig, Nvidia 1060 on an SSD. I run everything at the lowest at 1080p 60hz, and my fps is going around 20-50? Still 6k pop...

I HATE that the dev said 30fps is fine. If i can run Civilization at 90 instead of 30, of course 90 will be smoother, even if its just Civilization. We always move the camera in this game... SO yea, more fps is a plus even for this.

To add to the performance, the game crashes! Got 2 crash now, on 2 totally different PC... Bad performance, and crash... great. But those could be fixed... with months...

And other stuff that I hate is the snapping, and the traffic. The AI is pretty stupid or badly programmed. And some road rules are... stupid or missing. Mod could fix that.

In the good stuff: I like the city services building that can be upgraded like SimCity; The Industry seems to be a lot better; The power and water connected to the streets... Hell yea; The power grid having a wattage limit could be interesting but have'nt got there yet.

In the middle stuff: Some rewards should be unlocked at the start like most roads or the basic highway; the possibility to see the resources Before unlocking them; the money is weird right now as you get so much from cities reward, you could be in the red for hours but still see your money go up because of the rewards!

Worked for a few hours, now it just crash (either the game doesnt launch, or if it does, it crash when i load the game).

I couldnt get into any Dark Souls, or Bloodborn. But this one worked for me!